Just like last semester and the year before that, my students in City University of New York’s data visualization class (IS608) have finished their final projects. You can check out all of them (from this year and previous years) here.

This week, we got A/B testing working on our AMP pages. While we really like AMP, we had more trouble than I expected due to some rough edges and components of the AMP documentation that I think are slightly misleading, so I figured I would write down my experiences here.

About a year ago, ad-blockers were the existential threat du jour for online publishers. Even relatively sober publishers like The Economist were writing articles about Adblockalypse. Even we got in on the fun.

As you may have heard, this week marks the end of gawker.com’s operations. If you didn’t read it here, you may have read about it in thebushelofeulogiesthat our colleagues at other publications have produced over the last few days.

A few weeks ago, one of my editors pointed out that Gawker’s traffic graphs on Quantcast looked less ‘spike-y’ and asked me if I had noticed. I pulled up a graph of our traffic over the last 2+ years and immediately saw what she was referring to.

Just like last year, my students at City University of New York’s data visualization class (IS608) have finished their final projects. You can check out all of them (from this year and previous years) here.

It’s becoming clear that Airbnb completed a large removal of New York City listings right before releasing data to the press last year. However, the manipulation may have never been discovered if not for a real estate trade reporter following up on tips from hosts. But as one of the few people who saw the data, I want…